SLC26-W4 // "Fried Appetizers"

Hello everyone!

Today I am here to participate in the cooking challenge organizer by @suboohi to try fried appetizers in the form of square shape samosa.

Square shape samosa

What do you understand by Fried Appetizers?

Fried appetizers are small bite-sized or snack-sized dishes. These are cooked by deep frying, shallow frying, or pan frying. These are served before the main course of a meal.

Here is the complete recipe of the dish.

• Potatoes
• Lentils
• Green chillies
• Crushed red chillies
• Onions
• Tomatoes
• Black peppers
• Salt
• Maida(all purpose flour)
• Cumin seeds
• Ghee/Oil
• Coriander leaves
• Coriander seeds

	Green Chillies
	Lentils
	Tomato
	Potatoes
	Maida - All purpose flour
	Black Pepper, Cumin seeds, coriander seeds
	Onions
	Salt
	Crushed red chillies

These are all the required ingredients to make square shape samosa as baked appetizers product.

	I have cut tomatoes to small pieces.
	Cut green chillies toms mall pieces
	Cut Coriander Leaves
	Fine small pieces of onions

I have cut all the vegetable spices into fine pie es so that they can be used and mixed in the samosa filling easily. These will be blend completely in the filling of boiled potatoes to add great taste.

	Boiling Potatoes
	Boiling Lentils

I started boiling potatoes and lentils because these will be the basics ingredients to make the filling for the samosa.

	Maida - All purpose flour
	Adding salt
	Adding ghee
	Adding water
	Dough - adding cumin seeds
	Dough Balls

Meanwhile I have started making the dough for the samosa foldings. First of all I have taken three cups of maida. Then I have added some salt into the flour. Then I added ghee in the flour to make it crispy.

After making the dough I added cumin seeds and I started kneeding the dough again to mix them well in all the dough. Then I have made dough balls and I placed them in the plate and covered with a cloth and gave them some time to make them hard.

	Boiled potatoes - Peeled off
	Boiled Lentils

Here you can see potatoes have become boiled and lentils as well. Lentils are 95% boiled to have a taste of them in the filling otherwise it will be mixed completely and the tongue and teeth will not feel it's presence.

	Added lentils to potatoes
	Addition of onions
	Addition of coriander leaves
	Addition of tomatoes
	Addition of crushed red and green chillies
	Addition of salt
	Addition of black peppers
	Addition of cumin seeds and coriander seeds
	Filling ready to use

In order to make the filling for the samosa I have mixed lentils in the potatoes. Then I added all the required spices such as onions, green chillies, red chillies, tomatoes, coriander leaves, cumin seeds, coriander seeds and and black pepper powder. After mixing all these things a wonder and delicious filling for the samosa was ready. I tasted this filling and it was very tasty and I was desiring to eat it raw.

	Pressing Dough to fine sheets with pressor
	Cutting to square form
	Ready to fill

Now in order to make sheets to fill in and fry in the oil or ghee I started pressing the balls of already kneed dough with a pressor. It was converted to thin sheets.

I cut the sheets with the help of a small knife and converted then to the square shape. Now each small square shape sheet is ready to use.

	Filling
	Folding in the square form
	Frying in the oil

I filled the square shape samosa sheets with the potatoes and lentils filling. Then I folded them to get a proper square shape. After that I have fried them in the oil.

Ready to serve

After the complete procedure our square shape samosas are ready to eat. In this way we can make baked appetizers in the form of square samosa.

Delicious taste

These are very tasty and crispy just like the samosa in the shops. The taste was amazing and I liked their taste. The inside filling and the cumin seeds on the square sheets were adding a great taste.

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Give some other examples of Fried Appetizers that you like?

Spring rolls, pakoras, french fries, fries mozzarella sticks, onion rings, chicken wings, potato croquettes are some examples of fried appetizers which I like to eat.

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With whom do you want to share this delicious appetizer you made?

I would like to share these appetizers with @stmpak.wit. I hope she will enjoy these appetizers.

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I would like to invite @adriancabera, @issambashir, and @ninapenda to participate in this contest of appetizers.